Friday, February 18, 2005

Fun with the phones.

So I some how turned on the hold music for the company so that it would play out of my phone. I had no idea that this was the case, but randomly this morning, my phone made the sound of a rebooting computer. I jumped up and asked, "Did any of you hear that?" Everyone kind of stared at me as if I had three heads. So I went to Seth, my boss, and asked him if he had rebooted his computer. He said, "yeah, why?" After bantering back and forth for a while, we came to the realization that the hold music for the company was playing out of my phone. Apparently, the hold music for Miller Systems is supplied from Music Match Juke Box on Seth Miller's backup computer. He had just rebooted this computer and that was the sound that I heard. This was not previously a problem because hold music coming out of his computer is a new feature that was just setup within the past few days. He told me how to turn this feature off on my phone and sent me on my way. By this point, I came back to my cubicle to hear Funk music pumping out of my phone. I pressed the designated key sequence to turn it off...and the music kept right on coming. So I went to Ben's phone, and pressed "Feature 86". Ben's phone started to sing to us. Maria, my manager, said, "hey, it doesn't work on my phone!" so I ran over there and pressed the magic sequence on her phone, turned up the volume, and within 30 seconds, the whole office was rocking out to Seth's magic Funk tunes. "Hmmm, I wonder how you /really/ turn this off," someone asked. So I trundled back to Seth's office to ask how to /really/ turn off the music. He tried punching Feature 86 on his phone and it started to sing to him. He punched it in again...still singing, again...still singing. Finally, in his infinite wisdom, he tried the novel Feature #86 command and, low and behold, the music ceased as quick as it began. I ran back to my cubicle and spread the good word. Now we know how to both turn the music *on* and *off*.

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